Curriculum Vitae

Experience

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Healthcare Data Analyst (Jul 2023 – Present)

  • Analyze healthcare data in SQL and build & maintain Tableau dashboards to monitor cost, utilization, and KPIs for programs in the Office of Behavioral Health at MassHealth

Massachusetts General Hospital
Data Analyst II (Dec 2022 – Jul 2023)
Data Analyst I (May 2021 – Dec 2022)

  • Performed cross-sectional and longitudinal data analysis and visualization, primarily in R, for the Harvard Aging Brain Study and affiliated studies
  • Wrote and edited manuscripts and presented original research at international conferences
  • Designed and constructed robust QC pipelines integrating REDCap & MySQL databases
  • Led workshops on R programming for medical researchers and other data analysts
  • Supervised and mentored student interns

University of California, Davis
Mathematics Teaching Assistant (Sep 2018 – Jun 2020)
Associate Instructor in Mathematics (Summer 2019)

  • Taught weekly discussion sessions for undergraduate mathematics courses
  • Requested by name by multiple instructors
  • Earned stellar teaching evaluations, attaining a final rating of 4.8/5
  • Instructor of record for Summer 2019 Linear Algebra course
  • Nominated for Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award

University of California, Santa Barbara
Undergraduate Mathematics Researcher (Summer 2017)

  • Conducted a partnered research project in numerical linear algebra under the National Science Foundation’s Research Experience for Undergraduates Program
  • Bounded the conditions under which a common method for computing eigenvalues of matrix polynomials is inaccurate
  • Coded and optimized corroborative numerical experiments in MATLAB
  • Co-wrote and presented 30-page research paper detailing results

Education

M.S. Applied Mathematics
University of California, Davis
Sep 2018 – Jun 2020

B.S. Applied Mathematics
Tufts University
Aug 2014 – May 2018

Skills

R · SQL · Tableau · MATLAB · JavaScript · HTML/CSS · \(\LaTeX\)

Publications

Journal Articles

  1. Burling, J., Katz, Z., Yuan, Z., Munro, C., Mimmack, K., Ma, G., Hanseeuw, B., Papp, K., Amariglio, R., Vannini, P., Rentz, D., Quiroz, Y., Johnson, K., Sperling, R., Blacker, D., Marshall, G., Yang, H.-S. & Gatchel, J. (2024, February). Study Partner Report of Apathy in Older Adults is Associated with AD Biomarkers: Findings from the Harvard Aging Brain Study. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. doi.org/10.1016/j.jagp.2024.01.020

  2. Premnath, P., Locascio, J., Mimmack, K., Gonzalez, C., Properzi, M., Udeogu, O., Rosenberg, P., Marshall, G., Gatchel, J. (2024, February). Longitudinal associations of apathy and regional tau in mild cognitive impairment and dementia: Findings from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. Alzheimer’s & Dementia (New York, N. Y.), 10(1), e12442. doi.org/10.1002/trc2.12442

  3. Dubbelman, M., Hall, T., Levesque, I., Mimmack, K., Sikkes, S., Fischer, S., Rentz, D., Sperling, R., Papp, K., Amariglio, R., Marshall, G. (2023, December). Using a digital tool to detect early changes in everyday functioning in older adults: A pilot study of the Assessment of Smartphone Everyday Tasks (ASSET). Alzheimer’s & Dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 15(4), e12506. doi.org/10.1002/dad2.12506

  4. Mimmack, K., Sprague, E., Amariglio, R., Vannini, P., Marshall, G. (2023, September). Longitudinal Evolution of Financial Capacity and Cerebral Tau and Amyloid Burden in Older Adults with Normal Cognition or Mild Cognitive Impairment. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease, 1-9. doi.org/10.14283/jpad.2023.121. Preliminary results appeared in [10].

  5. Dubbelman, M., Mimmack, K., Sprague, E., Amariglio, R., Vannini, P., Marshall, G. (2023, July). Regional Cerebral Tau Predicts Decline in Everyday Functioning Across the Alzheimer’s Disease Spectrum. Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy, 15(1), 120. doi.org/10.1186/s13195-023-01267-w

  6. Gonzalez, C., Mimmack, K., Amariglio, R., Becker, J., Chhatwal, J., Fitzpatrick, C., Gatchel, J., Johnson, K., Katz, Z., Kuppe, M., Locascio, J., Udeogu, O., Papp, K., Premnath, P., Properzi, M., Rentz, D., Schultz, A., Sperling, R., Vannini, P., Wang, S., Marshall, G.(2023, July). Associations of the Harvard Automated Phone Task and Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology in Cognitively Normal Older Adults: Preliminary Findings. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease: JAD, 94(1), 217–226. doi.org/10.3233/JAD-220885

  7. Mimmack, K., Gagliardi, G., Marshall, G., Vannini, P. (2023, April). Measurement of Dimensions of Self-Awareness of Memory Function and Their Association with Clinical Progression in Cognitively Normal Older Adults. JAMA Network Open, 6(4), e239964. doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.9964. Preliminary results appeared in [11].

  8. Willey, B., Mimmack, K., et al. (2022, March). Racial and Socioeconomic Status Differences in Stress, Posttraumatic Growth, and Mental Health in an Older Adult Cohort During the COVID-19 Pandemic. EClinicalMedicine, 45, 101343. doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2022.101343

Posters & Presentations

  1. Mimmack, K., Qiao, K., Gagliardi, G., Bueichekú, E., Cacciamani, F., Wang, S., Odeogu, O., Marshall, G., Sepulcre, J., Diez, I. & Vannini, P. (2023, July). Cerebral Systems Underlying Anosognosia for Memory Loss in Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease. Poster presented at: The Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands

  2. Mimmack, K., Sprague, E., Amariglio, R., Vannini, P., Marshall, G. (2022, December). Longitudinal Evolution of Financial Capacity and Cerebral Tau and Amyloid Burden in Cognitively Normal Older Adults, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Alzheimer’s Disease Dementia. Poster presented at: Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease Conference, San Francisco, CA. Final results published in [4].

  3. Mimmack, K., Gagliardi, G., Marshall, G., Vannini, P. (2022, August). A Novel Approach to Measure Awareness of Memory Decline and its Ability to Predict Clinical Progression in Cognitively Normal Older Adults. Poster presented at: The Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, San Diego, CA. Final results published in [7].

  4. Mimmack, K., Towfiq, K., Bueno, M. (2017, August). Catastrophic Condition Number of Pencils Close to Whirlpool Pencils in DL(P). Poster presented at: UCSB Summer Undergraduate & Graduate Research Colloquium, Santa Barbara, CA

Abstracts

  1. Burling, J., Mimmack, K., Gagliardi, G., Quiroz, Y., Marshall, G., Vannini, P., Gatchel, J. (2023, December). Associations Among Depression, Stress, Resilience, and Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarkers in Older Adults Following a Major Societal Stressor. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 19(S18). doi.org/10.1002/alz.074947

  2. Gagliardi, G., Mimmack, K., Wang, S., Fawzy, M., Cacciamani, F., Munro, C., Gatchel, J., Marshall, G., Vannini, P. (2023, December). Common neurobiological mechanisms underlying anosognosia and neuropsychiatric symptoms across the Alzheimer’s disease spectrum. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 19(S18). doi.org/10.1002/alz.078379

  3. Gatchel, J., Mimmack, K., Quiroz, Y., Munro, C., Burling, J., Johnson, K., Sperling, R., Blacker, D., Ma, G., Vannini, P., Yang, H., Hanseeuw, B., Marshall, G., Arnold, S., Chhatwal, J. (2023, December). Depressive symptoms in relation to markers of neurodegeneration, cerebrovascular injury and Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) in community‐dwelling older adults: a plasma and multimodal neuroimaging study. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 19(S14). doi.org/10.1002/alz.072578

  4. Udeogu, O., Mimmack, K., Gagliardi, G., Burling, J., Gatchel, J., Quiroz, Y., Donovan, N., Amariglio, R., Sperling, R., Marshall, G., Vannini, P. (2023, December). Impact of Stress, Loneliness and Sociodemographic Factors on Psychological Well‐Being During the COVID‐19 Pandemic. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 19(S18). doi.org/10.1002/alz.079887

  5. Cacciamani, F., Gagliardi, G., Mimmack, K., Qiao, K., Bueichekú, E., Marshall, G., Sepulcre, J., Diez, I., Vannini, P. (2023, December). Relationship between loss of awareness of cognitive decline and tau pathology in the Alzheimer’s disease spectrum: modulatory role of resting‐state functional connectivity. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 19(S18). doi.org/10.1002/alz.079806

  6. Wang, S., Gagliardi, G., Mimmack, K., Cacciamani, F., Elnemais, M., Munro, C., Gatchel, J., Marshall, G., Vannini, P. (2023, December). Anosognosia is associated with increased prevalence and faster development of neuropsychiatric symptoms in Mild Cognitive Impairment. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 19(S18). doi.org/10.1002/alz.077282

  7. Vannini, P., Gagliardi, G., Cacciamani, F., Mimmack, K. (2023, December). A novel approach to measure dyadic patterns of subjective cognitive changes: its association to Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers and ability to predict clinical progression in cognitively normal older adults. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 19(S18). doi.org/10.1002/alz.075636

  8. Bueichekú, E., Diez, I., Gagliardi, G., Kim, C., Mimmack, K., Sepulcre, J., Vannini, P. (2023, December). Multi‐modal Neuroimaging Phenotyping of Mnemonic Anosognosia in the Aging Brain. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 19(S18). doi.org/10.1002/alz.080294

  9. Gagliardi, G., Vannini, P., Mimmack, K. (2022, December). Evolution of awareness for cognitive decline across several cognitive domains in stable vs clinically progressing participants. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 18(S7). doi.org/10.1002/alz.066110

  10. Gatchel, J., Yang, H., Mimmack, K., Arnold, S., Blacker, D., Liu, L., Selkoe, D., Johnson, K., Sperling, R., Marshall, G., Chhatwal, J. (2022, December). Plasma Biomarkers of Neurodegeneration and Tau in Relation to Longitudinal Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults: Findings from the Harvard Aging Brain Study. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 18(S7). doi.org/10.1002/alz.060979

Teaching

Workshops

  • Checking Data Quality & Assumptions · April 2023
    For the Harvard Aging Brain Study
  • Intro to R Markdown · November 2022
    For the Harvard Aging Brain Study
  • Intro to MATLAB · August 2022
    For the Multicultural Alzheimer’s Prevention Program & Harvard Aging Brain Study Summer Seminar
  • Data Transformation, Visualization, and Analysis with R · June – August 2022
    Workshop series for the Memory Awareness Study
  • Intro to the R Tidyverse · February 2022
    For the Harvard Aging Brain Study

Instructor of Record (UC Davis)

  • Linear Algebra · Summer 2019

Teaching Assistant (UC Davis)

  • Linear Algebra · Spring 2020
  • Calculus I for Biology & Medicine · Fall 2018, Fall 2019* (Lead TA)
  • Calculus II for Biology & Medicine · Spring 2019, Winter 2020
  • Pre-Calculus · Winter 2019